Re-Betchworth

Re-Betchworth is a village-based network focused on improving our local ecology and environment and encouraging sustainable lifestyles.  

While we can each make changes as individuals, by working together in community we have the combined energy and wisdom to achieve much more… and have some fun doing it.

From modest beginnings in 2020, the network has expanded as locals have become involved with one or other of our community initiatives.  In mid-2023 we won our category of the Surrey Wildlife Trust Community Champion Awards, one year after being granted charitable status.

Those leading the various initiatives, together with the charity trustees, form a management team which meets regularly to manage the continuing activities and plan further adventures in line with our mission. We welcome all suggestions – and offers of practical help and involvement even more! Get in touch…

Sustainable activities

• Established a wildflower strip on Goulburn Green, fostered a group of locals who’ve done the same in their gardens, then built on to start forming a north-to-south village wildlife corridor to connect with the national B-Line.
• Held a number of online educational talks from bio-diversity through heat pumps to water management, and run practical workshops on apple tree pruning and scything.
• Shared information on a resource-rich website www.re-betchworth.org, complimenting this with a YouTube channel and a series of short movies that appreciate and celebrate our natural world and communicating with our followers via a quarterly digital magazine.
• Started our own village Forest School, selling out a monthly programme in 2023.
• Secured commitment from residents to plant 70 trees as a Jubilee celebration and addition to the Queen’s Green Canopy.
• Established our own annual communal apple pressing day.

https://www.re-betchworth.org

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